I’m often asked to make a laptop recommendation for drive-by read collection. There are a thousand possible right answers, but it sure can hurt if you get burned by a bad choice. Time lost to equipment failure is costly and really frustrating. I’ve been there.

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One Wednesday,  an issue came across my desk from a Meter Reader who reported an apparent equipment failure. She was performing drive-by read collection when it just stopped reading. Reads were coming in quickly, and the dots that represented unread meters were disappearing from the screen… unt...

NACWA (National Association of Clean Water Agencies) and AMWA (Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies) have been hosting a series of webinars on resilience. These webinars have been of particular interest to SL-serco because we are involved in evaluating the risk and resilience of different wate...